opinion

This past weekend, on Fox News Sunday, anchor Chris Wallace played a clip of President Obama displaying the hypocritical audacity that epitomizes Mr. Obama’s term in office. “You don’t get to pick which rules you play by,” said the president, as he criticized some corporations for using what he admitted …

Churchville, Iowa is barely big enough to Google. It’s just a small country town – about a dozen or so houses and a church. They don’t even have a traffic light. “We’ve got two stop signs – one going in and one going out,” said Dennis Johnson. He’s been living …

Most people, perhaps even the super-wealthy, who are usually accountable to auditors, want to know where their money goes. This is especially true when they detect money for which they can’t account. Not so with the federal government. Some recent headlines reflect a disturbing pattern that has contributed to our …

What if the National Security Agency (NSA) knows it is violating the Constitution by spying on all Americans without showing a judge probable cause of wrongdoing or identifying the persons it wishes to spy upon, as the Constitution requires? What if this massive spying has come about because the NSA …

Did you enjoy Tax Day? You know, April 15, the day you spent countless hours or perhaps days preparing for in order to obey the Internal Revenue Service’s rules demanding you report every single penny you spent and where you spent it. Only when you’ve detailed for the government how …

I remember reading George Orwell’s “1984” when I was in high school. It felt particularly real to me because I came from the world in which what seems like fiction to others was my reality. For those who don’t know, “1984” is about communism and the scary, paranoid world that …

California may soon join 42 other states in letting people carry concealed handguns once they meet certain objective criteria. Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state couldn’t ban both concealed and open carry guns. The court also struck down the so-called “good cause” requirement for getting …

It has been 50 years since President Kennedy invoked words from John Winthrop’s “City Upon a Hill” to talk about the great responsibility that comes with serving in government. While the original passage is centuries old, many of its ideals still hold true today, namely the principles of trust and …

Many observers, including myself, have drawn unflattering comparisons between the disastrous administration of Jimmy Carter – considered by many our worst president ever – and that of President Obama. On reflection, I think we’ve been unkind to Mr. Carter. While he had many faults, Carter seldom lied. On the other …

Almost every single one of my 6th-graders wanted to be rich and famous. I was teaching middle-school math in New York City public, and one day I asked them, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” There were essentially four responses: 1. Rapper 2. Supermodel. 3. Professional …